Audits: N.Y. overpaid providers $11.4M for Medicaid

6:56 AM,
Jul. 10, 2013

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Written by

Jessica Bakeman
| Albany Bureau

New York overpaid Medicaid providers $11.4 million, two audits released Tuesday by the state Comptroller's Office found.

The state has recovered $3.8 million of the overpayments, which were largely the result of providers overstating reimbursement charges for the government health insurance program that serves mainly poor and disabled people, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said.

"New York's Medicaid system continues to be rife with waste," DiNapoli said in a statement. "Year after year, my auditors identify the same types of Medicaid errors due to weak controls. (The state ...